Aeronautics and astronautics

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The students, faculty and staff in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics share a passion for air and space vehicles, the technologies that enable them, and the missions they fulfill. Our environment is connected, busy, global, hectic, open, collegial ... and fun.

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Aeronautics & Astronautics students participated in the 2008 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competion and put together this video to share their experience. Fortunately the vehicle was not weighed down by its name.

The 2010 Unified Flight Competition was held on May 12 with 13 teams successfully completing flights. The objective of this year's competition was to design, build, and fly two circuits around the Johnson track a radio-controlled aircraft while maximizing the ...

What is weightlessness? How do astronauts train for it? How can we simulate it on Earth? Understand weightlessness through the eyes of Astronaut Dan Burbank and the experiments of grad students in Aero Astro.

Raymond Blisplinghoff (1917-1985) chaired the FAA commitee that investigated the May 1979 crash of an AA DC10 at O'Hare, killing all aboard. In this video shot at MIT in the early 1980s, he discusses the accident and its relevance to aircraft maintenance and technology. Blisplinghoff was a ...

On February 12, 2010, the MIT 2012 Class Ring (aka "Brass Rat") was unveiled in a special presentation at Kresge Auditorium. The high point of the presentation was a surprise pre-recorded video, sent from MIT alum astronaut TJ Creamer aboard the International Space Station. In the video, ...